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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Federal Supply Service
Schedule for
SPECIAL ITEM NUMBERS OFFERED:
Contract Number: GS-10F-0233M
Contract Period: April 15, 2002 through April 14, 2007
CONTRACTOR INFORMATION:
Business Size: Small, Women Owned Business
1a. Table of Awarded Special Item Numbers:
1b. Identification of the lowest priced model number and unit price for each special item number. 1c. Description of all corresponding commercial job titles, experience, functional responsibility and education for those types of employees or subcontractors who will perform services shall be provided. Contact Contractor 2. Maximum Order: $1,000,000.00 3. Minimum Order: $2300.00 4. Geographic Coverage (delivery Area): FOB Domestic and Overseas 5. Point(s) of production (city, county, and state or foreign country): Same as company address
6. Discount from list prices or statement of net price: 7. Quantity discounts: Not Offered 8. Prompt payment terms: Net 30 days 9a. Government purchase cards acceptance at or below the micro-purchase threshold: Yes 9b. Notification whether Government purchase cards are accepted or not accepted above the micro-purchase threshold: Contact Contractor 10. Foreign items (list items by country of origin): None l1a. Time of Delivery (Contractor insert number of days): Specified on the Task Order l1b. Expedited Delivery: Contact Contractor l1c. Overnight and 2-day delivery: Contact Contractor 11d. Urgent Requirements: Contact Contractor 12. F.O.B Point(s): Destination 13a. Ordering Address(es): Same as contractor 13b. Ordering procedures: For supplies and services, the ordering procedures, information on Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), and a sample BPA can be found at the GSA/FSS Schedule homepage (fss.gsa.gov/schedules). 14. Payment address(es): same as company address 15. Warranty provision: Contractor's standard commercial warranty 16. Export Packing Charges (if applicable): Not Applicable 17. Terms and conditions of Government purchase card acceptance (any thresholds above the micro-purchase level): Contact Contractor 18. Terms and conditions of rental, maintenance, and repair (if applicable): Not Applicable 19. Terms and conditions of installation (if applicable): Not Applicable 20. Terms and conditions of repair parts indicating date of parts price list and any discounts from list prices (if applicable): Not Applicable 20a. Terms and conditions for any other services (if applicable): Not Applicable 21. List of service and distribution points (if applicable): Not Applicable 22. List of participating dealers (if applicable): Not Applicable 23. Preventive maintenance (if applicable): Not Applicable 24. Special attributes such as environmental attributes, (e.g., recycled content, energy efficiency, and/or reduced pollutants): Not Applicable 25. Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number: 00-8579765 26. Registration in Central Contractor Registration (CCR) database: Registered
About IRIS Independent Research
SIN 874-1 Consulting Services IRIS offers tailored analyses that directly assist the client with improvement in strategic planning processes. For example, encouraging innovation is a major component of strategic planning. To improve innovation processes, IRIS identifies and examines nodes of innovation within the client organization, in order to assess how well the government client is structured to pursue innovation within its mission area. Diagramming of key nodes of innovation is followed by creation of guidance on the types of innovation relevant to long-range planning for research and development, organizational improvement and programming and budgeting. For example, one task might be to construct a model of technology-push versus demand-pull as patterns of innovation, and then analyze how an organization handles each type of process. As part of its consulting services, IRIS also evaluates organizational processes and recommends changes in organizational design, or business and action planning. For example, IRIS compares and assesses strategic planning processes in corporations and different government agencies. From this basis, IRIS identifies strengths and weaknesses in the organizational processes of the client, and how these processes function. IRIS then uses this analysis as one tool for identifying candidate process changes and improvements. Consulting services provided by IRIS also include quantitative and qualitative analysis of programs, resources, critical capabilities, deficiencies and analysis of alternatives. IRIS also performs business requirements action planning including trade-offs within the resource allocation process. IRIS delivers substantive written reports and final deliverables in interactive, electronic media that document the analysis and guidance provided to the client.
SIN 874-2 Facilitation Services Another aspect of these services is to facilitate development of mission and vision statements. For example, IRIS conducts initial research, prepare discussion materials and convene meetings with client staff to flesh out potential options for a new mission or vision statement. Bringing competing interests to the table is part of the process of coming up with a consensus and IRIS can facilitate discussions and employ group discussion techniques. By assisting client staff in articulating different goals and interests, IRIS provides an efficient process for reaching consensus on mission statements or future process plans. IRIS also compiles memoranda for the record and final reports that record the results of facilitated discussions. Working drafts capture the evolution of concepts and decisions as they emerge. In this capacity, staff from IRIS often work directly with client staff to spark discussion and record feedback. IRIS then distills interim findings, and provides them to the client, to record their decisions or to serve as the next jumping-off point for further discussion and evaluation by the working group. An important part of this work lies in the skills that IRIS staff bring to the process. For example, IRIS staff work closely with the client to define an initial agenda and to prepare summaries of divergent viewpoints. This groundwork speeds up the process of reaching consensus on complicated issues. IRIS also prepares briefing materials and make presentations to lead group discussions on behalf of or in cooperation with the client. In this way, IRIS structures the agenda; performs any needed preliminary research; presents analyses and other supporting data for discussion; and convenes or chairs the meetings. These services enable discussion amongst client staff or between the client’s staff and other offices and agencies. This facilitation can aid clients in developing better management practices through focus on long-term priorities and processes. To wrap up a project, IRIS writes and produces final reports of the activities. By quickly and efficiently producing a final report, clients gain the advantage of a product that can set direction for near-term action. Such reports also provide a record of the new mission, vision, or change plans that help the organization continue to carry out process improvements.
SIN 874-3 Survey Services IRIS provides clients with a full range survey services with special emphasis on survey research. As a first step, IRIS assists the client in selecting a methodology and designing the survey. This requires an ability to understand the mission of the client organization and the areas for proposed evaluation and change. Survey research in its preliminary phases may include working with historical records, probing current databases or conducting in-depth interviews. Another stage of survey research is reviewing which organizations have responsibility for oversight, concept development and funding that contributes to specified internal functions, for example. In this case, the survey research extends to identifying and analyzing connections among the areas of functional responsibility, and offering assessments of the level of visibility into the process. A survey of this type would rely heavily on polling of key stakeholders in the process. IRIS provides an additional service by defining the scope of inquiry and evaluating potential survey sources and methods used to tap them. For example, research and analysis may include surveying policy objectives, measuring effects, evaluating how objectives were or were not met, compiling critiques, and summarizing results of the survey. Integration of the survey research is another important service that IRIS performs. At times, the client may require survey services that span a wide range of material to include survey work done especially for the client, as well as outside survey research. As part of the survey effort, IRIS collects and reviews data from many different sources. IRIS then sifts it for relevance and proceeds to analyze and integrate the findings of multiple data resources. Sometimes a client requires a rapid, interim assessment. For example, pilot surveys may be needed when a client is under pressure to implement change rapidly. IRIS delivers quick-turn surveys that stand alone as a “quick-look” assessment or forms the basis for more detailed follow-on survey work. This can be especially helpful for an organization that is in the process of defining what level of business improvement it will commit to undertaking. Making the most of survey research requires top-quality presentation of results and recommendations. As a final aspect of survey services, IRIS delivers high-quality reports. They make take the form of written reports on the survey; annotated briefings with illustrations; and visual aides ranging from slides and graphs, to video, CD, DVD and other electronic media packaging as requested by the client.
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